Creating Change

Change doesn’t just happen

Even with a compelling strategy and committed teams the change you need is not guaranteed. Culture can make up for many inadequacies, but you need to give it the best opportunity to thrive.

Creating the change you want

Create the change you want:

  • Form an agreed position on the extent change is required.
  • Prioritise activities based on risk vs reward.
  • Accelerate change so 80% of goals are reached 20% sooner.

Forming an agreed position on the extent change is required needs leadership and team work. My LIPS (Leadership, Infrastructure, People and Systems) diagnostic tool and my facilitation skills to provide a reality check pave the way to an agreed set of change initiatives.

Cost-benefit or risk vs reward analysis needs thoughtfulness and the ability to quantify intangibles. My many years of experience in this field allows me to provide the team the direction needed to get this job done.

With risk vs reward in hand, the final step is to place each change initiative on the risk vs reward quadrant planning model (see below) to prioritise those to be planned immediately, those that need probing for clearer direction and those that can be picked off one by one as resources are available. The rest are parked and reviewed periodically.

GATEWAYS and SIGNALS

Irrespective of whether change initiatives are planned, probed, picked or parked, implementing a gateway system to check progress and adjust your approach will also be critical. Just like a sales funnel, I help your team create a funnel of change initiatives with exit gateway points as they flow through funnel from concept, to design to implementation to lessons learned. I also assist your team to establish signals to monitor for a change in the environment requiring a change of plan. Similar to risk vs reward, signals can be difficult to measure yet can be critical. My experience in quantifying the difficult to measure is another opportunity to add value to your team.

More of my insights on this workshop

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

  • Bryan facilitated a workshop for our executive team in order to make Risk Management an integral, business as usual activity, as opposed to a standalone activity which is only considered at certain times. Bryan was able to portray Risk, and Risk Management in a number of different ways, which sparked a number of interesting discussions, and resulted in us identifying a number of initiatives which will assist in the our goal of integrating Risk Management into day to day business activities.

    Robert Ferris, General Manager, Electrix Ltd
  • We developed a strong long-term relationship with Bryan as he helped us to accelerate our approach to managing risk. He did an excellent job helping us navigate through various options with our board and senior leadership team to develop and operationalise our risk appetite and to establish a community of practice to embed risk-based decision making.

    Kathleen Ryan, Executive Director Clinical Governance & Information Services, Mid North Coast Local Health District
  • G&S engaged Bryan to facilitate a broad Business Risk session with our Executive Team. Through the addition of Bryan’s extensive Risk Management knowledge and his well tuned facilitation skills our team reviewed and updated our corporate business risk system tools and completed a review of our business risks, current treatment plans and prioritised our residual risk areas. I wouldn’t hesitate to utilise Bryan’s services again or to recommend his consultancy to other organisations.

    Tim Magoffin, General Manager Maintenance & Mining Services, Maintenance & Mining, Mackay, G & S Engineering
  • BWC helped us review our thinking on risk management, bringing a more strategic approach to the way we view our risks and opportunities. Bryan’s style and pragmatic approach ensures board, management and staff feel confident with understanding the complexities of supervising and managing risk.

    Deborah Hoffman, General Manager, Research and Planning, Cerebral Palsy Alliance